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Closer Snowbird shots

PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:42 am
by Rifleman
It would be nice to have my old film camera and my long(400mm zoom) for these kind of shots, but my poor tired little 2 MP digital is going to have to do .......I shot this out the front door of work yesterday (Wed)......Yes indeed, the Snowbirds are back for their twice a day practice sessions over the skies of Comox/Courtenay and the Comox Valley........with almost three weeks of them here, I anticipate getting up to the end of the runway to see about shooting them out of the sky...... ;)

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They are turning a 180 here to go downwind, right to left, before making their landing break......

Re: The Boys are back in town..........

PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 10:12 am
by ChuckMajik
Ratzafratz! I will envy you till the end of my days.

Re: The Boys are back in town..........

PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:03 pm
by Fly2e
Nice Ken!
Now I am sure you have a camera in your car while they are in town, right!  ;)

Dave

Re: The Boys are back in town..........

PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:11 pm
by Rifleman
[center]Dave, you know all too well of all my stories of missed images...... :-[


........hmmmm, now where did I leave that darn camera ?

Re: The Boys are back in town..........

PostPosted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:52 am
by Tequila Sunrise
cool  8)

Re: The Boys are back in town..........

PostPosted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:36 am
by C
Nice Ken! :)

Reminds me of my time spent living up in Lincolnshire, and seeing the Red Arrows practicing over the winter months...

Re: The Boys are back in town..........

PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:07 am
by AlphaBravo
looks good

Re: The Boys are back in town..........

PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:43 am
by Rifleman
Here is how we find out if the boys are really back in town ...just in case someone is deaf, they put this on the front page of the paper........

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Re: The Boys are back in town..........

PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:55 pm
by Rifleman
I took a little local heat for not posting some closer images of the boys, so here are a couple which I shot with my little 2 MP Olympus......

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Re: The Boys are back in town..........

PostPosted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 12:09 am
by JRoc
Great shots!  I'm still waiting for Candace to develop the pictures she took when she went up with them on their first practice demonstration of the year - lucky girl.

Re: Closer Snowbird shots

PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 10:29 am
by Jared
wow! I'm loving those shots! Getting me in the mood for an airshow!

Re: The Boys are back in town..........

PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2005 12:06 pm
by Hagar
I took a little local heat for not posting some closer images of the boys, so here are a couple which I shot with my little 2 MP Olympus......

Very nice too. I find these formation shots the most difficult.